GRAINGER

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• GRAINGER (noun)
  The noun GRAINGER has 1 sense:

1. United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)

  Familiarity information: GRAINGER used as a noun is very rare.

• GRAINGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States composer (born in Australia) who lived in London and collected English folk songs (1882-1961)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George Percy Aldridge Grainger; Grainger; Percy Aldridge Grainger; Percy Grainger

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

 Context examples 

I was very high with him, mainly I think because I saw Steerforth and Grainger laughing at me—or at him—or at both of us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

One of Steerforth's friends was named Grainger, and the other Markham.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were both very gay and lively fellows; Grainger, something older than Steerforth; Markham, youthful-looking, and I should say not more than twenty.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was no bedroom before me, but again the jingling table covered with glasses; the lamp; Grainger on my right hand, Markham on my left, and Steerforth opposite—all sitting in a mist, and a long way off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I laughed heartily at my own jokes, and everybody else's; called Steerforth to order for not passing the wine; made several engagements to go to Oxford; announced that I meant to have a dinner-party exactly like that, once a week, until further notice; and madly took so much snuff out of Grainger's box, that I was obliged to go into the pantry, and have a private fit of sneezing ten minutes long.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)